Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 73786
Getting rid of version numbers in Installer and Product bitmaps
Last modified: 2012-09-04 08:30:54 UTC
For the NSIS instaler we have the version number in the describing text and title bar. We don't need a bitmap with the version number. Showing OpenOffice.org would be enough. As a 'running gag' we have always issues short before codefreeze that we have to adjust this bitmap. Removing the bitmap prevents us for such a forgetting. The same we could do for our splash screen and the about box.
Pretty trivial fix. I have attached updated bitmaps, and also png versions (not sure why we switched back to bmps?). IMHO target for 2.3.1?... Cheers, Andrew
Created attachment 47875 [details] Updated intro / about splash screens to remove version number
Created attachment 47876 [details] Same updated images, just in png format to save space
OF: No need for 2.3.1 target. We haven't used no new bitmaps for OOo 2.2.1 so we don' need them for OOo 2.3.1. So we should target this to 2.4.
Can we introduce this change in 3.0?
Ok, so there seems to be a bug in the handling of splash bitmaps that should probably be fixed: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=60696#desc58 (Note bmps I supplied are palette not 24bit, but as Kendy states we should be able to use png here anyway).
CCing 'floeff'
Thanks for the pointer! I've added the information to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Art/Splash_Screen/Proposals#Introduction
Version numbers help to realize how old an installed version is (splashscreen and about box). If you remove this information e.g. from the splashscreen, you need to have it available at another spot; the about box should not get rid of the version number. The online update remembers you of the current installed version and the version of the update, but that only happens, if a new update is available. It does not help the user to remove that information for the reason to avoid bugs.
bh: The version information should only be omitted from the source image files, but dynamically inserted at runtime by the program. This prevents last-minute fixes in the files, and gives the user the same experience as he already has. It's only handled technically different.
@floeff: Ok, I am relieved :).
@bh: 'Keep it simple' is a valid way to prevent bugs. Having detailed information in a screen that is in the best case only displayed for a second or two is not the way. We have detailed information about OOo the About Box. That is the place where this information belongs to. The splash should only show something like 'OpenOffice.org 3'.
@of: 'Keep it simple' might help to prevent bugs, but not ease users help.
wanted to say ease users live. :)
conclusion now is: OpenOffice.org Splash comes with "OpenOffice.org <major_version>", e.g. 3 About bitmap clones the splash -> OpenOffice.org 3 Aboutbox already includes detailed version information (without Ctrl-SDT), e.g. OpenOffice.org 3.0.0.
This decision comes a little bit too late, as we now several times asked the participants of the logo contest (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Art/Splash_Screen/Proposals) to make the splash without a version number at all... We can either add the version via code (even only the major version), or we can hope that the winner of the contest will modify its logo accordingly. As we have the source files for the logo as a requirement, this should be no problem as well. I just want to avoid modifying the contest rules again...
splash and about now come with just major 3, mark as fixed.
1380171: splash and help->about has the major version 3 other bitmaps has no version info close